A Neighborhood Walk, a Musical Journey
By: Pilar Winter Hill
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
"Honk-honk, tweet-tweet, patter-patter!" This sweet, fun read-aloud drums up nostalgia for all...
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A Tisket, a Tasket
By: Ella Fitzgerald
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The song made famous by jazz great Ella Fitzgerald in the 1930s has been re-created, re-...
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Bats in the Band
By: Brian Lies
Age Level: 3-6 years old
When the bats awaken from winter hibernation, not only do their stomachs grumble, they are...
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Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Age Level: 3-6 years old
John's music began when he listened to the music in his childhood. Semi-abstract...
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Ben's Trumpet
By: Rachel Isadora
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Ben wants to be a trumpeter, but he plays only an imaginary instrument until one of the...
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Bird & Diz
By: Gary Gallo
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Presents a rhythmic tribute to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and their creation of bebop....
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Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
By: Chris Raschka
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Inspired by jazz great Charlie Parker, rhythm and repetition are woven together to create a...
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Dooby Dooby Moo
By: Doreen Cronin
Age Level: 3-6 years old
When Duck reads about an upcoming talent show at the county fair, he organizes the animals on...
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Drum City
By: Thea Guidone
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A young boy begins banging on pots and pans in his front yard, enticing other children to join...
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Ear Worm!
By: Jo Knowles
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
One summer day, as Little Worm heads out to play, he discovers he has a song stuck in his head...
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Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist
By: Susan Wood
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Meet Juan García Esquivel whose contributions to music can still be heard. From his early days...
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Every Little Thing
By: Bob Marley, Cedella Marley
Age Level: 3-6 years old
In this illustrated version of Bob Marley's song, a young boy, with the encouragement of three...
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Forever Young
By: Bob Dylan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Since it first appeared on the 1974 album Planet Waves, "Forever Young" has been one of Bob...
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Gus and Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar
By: Keith Richards
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Long before there was a band, there was a boy: a young Keith Richards, who was introduced to the...
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Hip Cat
By: Jonathan London
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A cool cat named Oobie-Do moves to San Francisco, plays his saxophone and works as a short order...
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Hip Hop Dog
By: Chris Raschka
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A mutt tells reveals a "doggy allegory" and how he went from "the saddest and the...
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I Got the Rhythm
By: Connie Scholfield-Morrison
Age Level: 3-6 years old
On a sunny day, a child and her mother go for a walk in the park. The rhythm the girl hears in...
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Jazz Baby
By: Lisa Wheeler
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Baby and his family make some jazzy music.
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Kenya's Song
By: Linda Trice
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Kenya is looking for a favorite song to share with her class. She and her father attend a...
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Let It Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals
By: Ashley Bryan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Three well known spirituals, "This Little Light of Mine," "When the Saints Go Marching In," and...
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Let's Play!
By: Gabriel Alborozo
Age Level: 3-6 years old
From the tinkling tones of the tiny piccolo to the majesty of the grand piano or the deep...
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Little Pig Joins the Band
By: David Hyde Costello
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Little Pig has trouble keeping up with his older--and bigger--brothers and sisters. When they...
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Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll
By: Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
A picture-book biography of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the woman who invented rock and roll — a warm...
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Manuelo, the Playing Mantis
By: Don Freeman
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A praying mantis who longs to make music gets help from a spider name Debby Webster.
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Mole Music
By: David McPhail
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Feeling that something is missing in his simple life, Mole acquires a violin and learns to make...
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Music, Music for Everyone
By: Vera Williams
Age Level: 3-6 years old
When Rosa's grandmother becomes sick, Rosa comes up with an idea that not only makes...
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Musical Instruments Series
By: Xist Publishing
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Describes instruments, their parts, the different types, and how they are played.
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Olivia Forms a Band
By: Ian Falconer
Age Level: 3-6 years old
When Olivia learns that there will be no band at the evening's fireworks display, she decides to...
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One Love
By: Cedella Marley
Age Level: 3-6 years old
In this illustrated version of Bob Marley's song, a young girl enlists her friends, family, and...
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Peter and the Wolf
By: Chris Raschka, Sergei Prokofiev
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Retells the orchestral fairy tale in which a boy ignores his grandfather's warnings and captures...
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Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum
By: Robert Andrew Parker
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The story of young Art Tatum, who became one of the all-time greats of jazz.
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Punk Farm
By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Age Level: 3-6 years old
At the end of the day, while Farmer Joe gets ready for bed, his animals tune their instruments...
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Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf
By: Sergei Prokofiev
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Despite Grandfather's warning about wolves in the forest, Peter and his animal friends capture...
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Shake, Rattle & Turn That Noise Down!
By: Mark Alan Stamaty
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Recounts the author's childhood determination to emulate Elvis Presley after being inspired by...
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The Orchestra Pit
By: Johanna Wright
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Even though the green-spotted snake wanders into the wrong pit – an orchestra pit – he takes the...
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This Jazz Man
By: Karen Ehrhardt
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Presents an introduction to jazz music and nine well-known jazz musicians, set to the rhythm of...
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This Land is Your Land
By: Woodie Guthrie
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Guthrie's folk song begins a journey across the United States. Highly detailed, richly colored...
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Tito Puente, Mambo King
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 3-6 years old
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Uptown
By: Bryan Collier
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Join a boy as he takes you uptown to introduce his Harlem home, filled with excitement, sounds,...
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When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Marian Anderson was an extraordinary contralto whose talent was celebrated in Europe long before...
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Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People
By: Bonnie Christensen
Age Level: 3-6 years old
An introductory biography of famous folk singer Woody Guthrie presented as a picture book with a...
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A Band of Angels
By: Deborah Hopkinson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Ella Sheppard was one of the original Jubilee Singers from what is now known as Fisk University...
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A Good Night for Ghosts
By: Mary Pope Osborne
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Jack and Annie go to New Orleans on All Saint's Day in 1915 to find a young musician named Louis...
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A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice
By: Nadia Hohn
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Louise Bennett Coverley, better known as Miss Lou, was a Jamaican poet and entertainer who used...
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Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band
By: Kwame Alexander
Age Level: 6-9 years old
When a jazz-loving rooster sets his sights on winning a barnyard talent show, he realizes he can...
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Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay
By: Susan Hood
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A town built on a landfill. A community in need of hope. A girl with a dream. A man with a...
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Banjo Granny
By: Sarah Martin Busse, Jacqueline Martin
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Owen’s singing, banjo-playing Granny goes out “to cross one river, one mountain, and a desert”...
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Boys Dancing: From School Gym to Theater Stage
By: George Ancona
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Elementary school-age boys start at the beginning of the school year to study with Pamela at the...
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Bremen Town Musician
By: Jacob Grimm
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
This is the classic tale of four beleaguered animals—a donkey who can no longer work, a hound...
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Can You Hear It?
By: William Lach
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Introduces children to music through works of art. Pictures set the scene for the music, and...
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Celia Cruz: Queen of Salsa
By: Veronica Chambers
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Celia Cruz began singing on the streets of Havana as a child. She grew up to become a legendary...
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Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
By: Amanda Gorman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Poetry
As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the...
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Dark Was the Night: Blind Willie Johnson's Journey to the Stars
By: Gary Golio
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The story of Blind Willie Johnson — the legendary Texas musician whose song "Dark Was the Night...
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Dizzy
By: Jonah Winter
Age Level: 6-9 years old
John Birks Gillespie was an angry child from an abusive home. He was able to overcome huge...
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Django: World's Greatest Jazz Guitarist
By: Bonnie Christensen
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Born into a poor Roma family, Django Reinhardt's musical talent takes him to perform on European...
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Drum Dream Girl: One Girl's Courage Changed Music
By: Margarita Engle
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually...
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Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite
By: Anna Harwell Celenza
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Duke Ellington's collaboration with a classically trained colleague resulting in unique...
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Elizabeth's Song
By: Michael Wenberg
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A fictionalized account of how an 11-year-old girl, Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, saved to buy her...
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Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa
By: Andrea Pinkney
Age Level: 6-9 years old
From her early days in Harlem to becoming the First Lady of Jazz, the story of Ella Fitzgerald...
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Ellington Was Not a Street
By: Kadir Nelson, Ntozake Shange
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Handsome illustrations of Shange's evocative poem, "Mood Indigo," pay homage to the many African...
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Elvis: The Story of the Rock and Roll King
By: Bonnie Christensen
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A picture-book biography of a poor kid from Tupelo, Mississippi, who became an American musical...
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Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist
By: Susan Wood
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Meet Juan García Esquivel whose contributions to music can still be heard. From his early days...
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Fab Four Friends
By: Susanna Reich
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Through paintings and text, this book traces the history and rise in popularity of the Beatles...
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Finding the Music/En pos de la musica
By: Jennifer Torres
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Reyna accidentally breaks her abuelo’s vihuela and tries to fix it before her family finds out....
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Flowers for Sarajevo
By: John McCutcheon
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Drasko is Milo’s son who carries on his father’s flower business even after things in Sarajevo...
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For the Love of Music: The Remarkable Story of Maria Anna Mozart
By: Elizabeth Rusch, Steve Johnson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The life of Wolfgang’s older sister, Maria Anna, follows the form of a piano sonata which...
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Freedom in Congo Square
By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Join the rhythmic countdown to Sunday afternoon, the one time when enslaved Africans in 19th...
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Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin
By: Chieri Uegaki
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Inspired by memories of the time she spent in Japan with her grandfather, a professional...
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Harlem
By: Walter Dean Myers
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Experienced readers will enjoy this stunning and sophisticated visit to Harlem in word and image...
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Harlem Renaissance Party
By: Faith Ringgold
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Lonnie travels back in time to meet many of the artists, writers, and musicians of the Harlem...
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Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
By: Renee Watson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
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How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz
By: Jonah Winter
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Jelly Roll Morton became – to his grandmother’s horror – a musician in New Orleans, developing...
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I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello
By: Barbara Garriel
Age Level: 6-9 years old
An adaptation of the folk rhyme "There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly," featuring musical...
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Jasmine Toguchi, Drummer Girl
By: Debbi Michiko Florence
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Third-grader, Jasmine Toguchi, wants to enter her school’s talent show, but what talent could...
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John Coltrane's Giant Steps
By: Chris Raschka
Age Level: 6-9 years old
John Coltrane's musical composition is performed by a box, a snowflake, some raindrops, and a...
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Ketzel, the Cat Who Composed
By: Leslea Newman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Moshe Cotel was a composer who lived in a noisy building on a noisy street in a noisy city. But...
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Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century
By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Born in the Mississippi Delta in 1927, the always musically gifted Mary Violet Leontyne Price...
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Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotton
By: Laura Veirs
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Elizabeth "Libba" Cotton heard music all around her growing up in North Carolina. She became a...
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Listen to the Birds: An Introduction to Classical Music
By: Ana Gerhard
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Provides an introduction to classical music, describing how birds have inspired composers...
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Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
By: Katheryn Russell-Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Melba Doretta Liston loved the sounds of music from as far back as she could remember....
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Little Rat Makes Music
By: Monica Bang-Campbell
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Little Rat wants to be musical and play an instrument just as do the other members of her family...
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M Is for Music
By: Kathleen Krull
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The alphabet is used as a device to introduce the vocabulary for a range of musical styles as...
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Mahalia Jackson: Walking with Kings and Queens
By: Nina Nolan
Age Level: 6-9 years old
This brief, broad introduction to gospel great, Mahalia Jackson, is sure to inform as well as...
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Max Found Two Sticks
By: Brian Pinkney
Age Level: 6-9 years old
It was a day when Max didn't feel like talking to anyone. He just sat on his front steps and...
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Moses Goes to a Concert
By: Isaac Millman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Moses and his schoolmates, all deaf, attend a concert where the orchestra's percussionist is...
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Mr. Putter and Tabby Toot the Horn
By: Cynthia Rylant
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Mr. Putter's neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, decides that they should join a band, but finding the...
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Music for Mr. Moon
By: Erin Stead
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Harriet just wants to play her cello alone. But when she accidentally knocks the lonely moon...
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My Name Is Celia/Me llamo Celia
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
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Odetta: The Queen of Folk
By: Stephen Alcorn
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The life and music of Odetta who became an influential folksinger and civil rights activist is...
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Penny and Her Song
By: Kevin Henkes
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Henkes' first easy reader introduces Penny and her mouse family in two appealing chapters. Penny...
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Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum
By: Robert Andrew Parker
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Art Tatum came from modest beginnings and was nearly blind, but his passion for the piano and...
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Play, Mozart, Play!
By: Peter Sís
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was not only a famous composer and a musical genius; his father turned...
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Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll! Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll
By: Tonya Bolden
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
A picture book biography of the life, career, and impact of 20th-century blues and gospel singer...
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Roly-Polies
By: Mónica Carretero
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Beneath a large cabaret theater lived a huge family of roly-polies. The cabaret was open at...
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Simple Gifts
By: Chris Raschka
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A familiar traditional Shaker hymn has been interpreted in bold, semi-abstract, jewel-toned...
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Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald
By: Eileen L. Ordover
Age Level: 6-9 years old
From a poor girl who had "a dancing beat in her feet ever since she was a bitty girl"...
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Song in the City
By: Daniel Bernstrom
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A young girl, filled with the sounds of her beloved city, shares a song with her grandmother...
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Sweet Music in Harlem
By: Debbie Taylor
Age Level: 6-9 years old
CJ's uncle, a well known jazz musician, has lost his signature hat and sends the boy out to...
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Swing Sisters: The Story of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm
By: Karen Deans
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The story of a group of African American orphans who played in their school's all-girl swing...
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Teach Your Buffalo to Play Drums
By: Audrey Vernick
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Encourages the reader, through practical advice, to support his or her buffalo's desire to play...
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The Beatles Were Fab (and They Were Funny)
By: Kathleen Krull
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A group of young men from Liverpool changed the world of music and they enjoyed a good laugh —...
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The Cardboard Piano
By: Lynne Rae Perkins
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Debbie is taking piano lessons and makes a cardboard piano for her friend Tina. But when Tina...
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The Carnival of the Animals
By: Jack Prelutsky
Age Level: 6-9 years old
New poems, many rhyming, describe the animals introduced in Saint-Saens' orchestral music that...
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The Composer Is Dead
By: Lemony Snicket
Age Level: 6-9 years old
An inspector seeks to solve a murder mystery at the symphony by questioning each of the musical...
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The Deaf Musicians
By: Pete Seeger, Paul Dubois Jacobs
Age Level: 6-9 years old
An inspector seeks to solve a murder mystery at the symphony by questioning each of the musical...
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The First Flute
By: David Bouchard, Jan Reibach
Age Level: 6-9 years old
When a name is given to an adult, it is often given based on the life that person has lived. The...
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The Golden Thread: A Song for Pete Seeger
By: Colin Meloy
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Pete Seeger was a musician, an activist, an environmentalist and more. An overview of his life...
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The Little Piano Girl
By: Ann Ingalls, Maryann Macdonald
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A child prodigy at the piano sprinkles her music with a little jazz. Includes an afterword about...
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The Piano
By: William Miller
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A young girl's love for music leads her to a job in the home of an older woman who teaches her...
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The Shoe Bird
By: Barbara M. Joosse
Age Level: 6-9 years old
An absurd but satisfying fantasy based on Eudora Welty's only children’s work, is presented in...
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Trombone Shorty
By: Trou "Trombone Shorty" Andrews
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Troy Andrews grew up in a New Orleans family of musicians so it’s not surprising that he, too,...
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Tuba Lessons
By: T.C. Bartlett
Age Level: 6-9 years old
While walking through the woods on his way to his tuba lesson, a boy becomes sidetracked by all...
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Ukulele Hayley
By: Judy Cox
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Hayley has finally found her talent: playing ukelele like her great-aunt Ruby, who traveled all...
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When Bob Met Woody: The Story of the Young Bob Dylan
By: Gary Gallo
Age Level: 6-9 years old
This picture-book biography follows a young Bob Zimmerman as he renames himself after his...
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When Grandmama Sings
By: Margaree King Mitchell
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Belle goes with her talented grandmother on a singing tour during a time of racial segregation...
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When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky
By: Lauren Stringer
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Stravinsky, a composer, and a dancer named Nijnsky each worked alone until they met. Their...
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When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
By: Laban Carrick Hill
Age Level: 6-9 years old
From his early childhood in Jamaica, Clive loved all types of music. When he was 13 years old,...
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Yellow Dog Blues
By: Alice Faye Duncan
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A lyrical road trip through the Mississippi Delta, exploring the landmarks that shaped one of...
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Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin
By: Lloyd Moss
Age Level: 6-9 years old
When this book begins, the trombone is playing all by itself. But soon a trumpet makes a duet, a...
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All Summer Long
By: Hope Larson
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Bina’s first summer without her best friend, Austin, proves to be an emotional roller coaster....
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Amina's Voice
By: Hena Khan
Age Level: 9-12 years old
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Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
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Great American Mousical
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